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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 9h

Looks like they just finished an 8 ball of coke

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

This is AI.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 10h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 9h

The usual justification—that cuts were a “course correction”—wasn’t even attempted this time.

“This is clearly a political move to pressure Democrats,” one current CDC official told Inside Medicine. “Many who were RIF’d were working on emergencies.”

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 9h

Also- lock his ass up

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 12h

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 12h

The thing we have learned very clearly about Jay Bhattacharya in the last six months is:

He wants to be a podcaster.

He seems to have no interest in running NIH or learning about science. He’s the leader of #darkscicomm

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 13h

Bhattacharya is busy tweeting from his personal account about how he was right about lockdowns.

This is where he seems to want to spend his time, rather than doing his day job.

t Jay Bhattacharya reposted
Coronavirus Plushie & @c_plushie
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And this is how it was covered by @IngrahamAngle on this day, 5 Oct, 2020:
Top International Epidemiologists Launch
Petition for Focused Protections and an End to Lockdowns — Signed by Over 1,700 Medical Professionals
Thank you @MartinKulldorff@DrJBhattacharya and@SunetraGupta
• DR SUNETRA GUPTA LOXFORD UNIV EPIDEMIOLOGY PROFESSOR
FOX NEWS
EXPERTS: THOSE NOT VULNERABLE SHOULD RESUME LIFE
EXCLUSIVE
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 9h

Jared from Subway is a condo billionaire?

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 9h

Wow

Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 1d

When Cash had his TV show (which he quit rather than letting ABC tell him who to book) he’d constantly look like he was counting his blessings. Watch him with Louis Armstrong, he can’t believe he gets to do this - youtu.be/0nfrLIKMSI0?...

Louis Armstrong & Johnny Cash - Standing On The Corner (Blue Yodel #9) (The Johnny Cash Show 1970)

YouTube video by Kubila

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13h

I love this image.

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 11h

I’ve been reading EKGs since 2003

Never been able to tell the age of someone just by looking at it

#justsaying #thathesfullofshit

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Reuters @reuters.com · 11h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 9h

It's a two-fer, you get your antisemitic conspiracy theory AND the insistence that there is no such thing as sincere progressive opinion, it couldn't possibly be that people are genuinely pissed off so they must have been paid to protest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 12h

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13h

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 9h

Good point

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h

Inventive People of Portland Dressing as Animals:

Please don't dress as dogs. Your life will not be safe with psychopath Kristi Noem on the rooftops.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 21h

This is awesome.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 10h

the myopic, feckless, and hamfisted policy of this administration is not just bad on the merits but also detrimental to our ability to keep our country safe from actual threats

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10h

Law and order www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement

Data shows stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns

www.theguardian.com

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 10h

Because Donald Trump knows that the vaccines are safe and effective and that they save lives.

And he doesn’t want to die from COVID or the flu.

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 10h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h

The people who voted for Trump didn’t think they were driving a truck over a street full of people, but in effect they were. Many, many Americans will die because of the Trump regime’s destruction of our public health system.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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